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1. Something that is remembered
   "search as he would, the memory was lost"
    
2. The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
   "he can do it from memory"
   - remembering
    
3. The power of retaining and recalling past experience
   "he had a good memory when he was younger"
   - retention, retentiveness, retentivity
    
4. An electronic memory device
   "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
   - computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board
    
5. The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
   "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"

Derived forms: memories

See also: memorize

Type of: basic cognitive process, cognitive psychology, computer hardware, faculty, hardware, internal representation, memory device, mental faculty, mental representation, module, representation, storage device

Part of: computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system

Encyclopedia: Memory Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Memory, Sorrow and Thorn